G6 carriers announce rotations for 17 services to North America

The G6 Alliance today announced the 17 port rotations — 12 for the Asia-North America West Coast trade and five in the transatlantic — that it plans to start operating in April.
Ken Glenn, the president of APL, said that the vessel-sharing agreement hopes to begin service in April, having sent responses to questions given to it by the Federal Maritime Commission last week.
In addition to APL, the G6 carriers are Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, MOL, NYK and OOCL.
In a statement, the G6 carriers said the new services “will further strengthen its position to meet shippers’ demand for more comprehensive, seamless and efficient services with competitive transit times. Further, each of the G6 Alliance members will be able to offer its customers significantly improved port-pair connections compared to their previous products.”
The G6 Alliance was formed in late 2011 through a merger of the smaller Grand Alliance (Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL) and New World Alliance (APL, Hyundai, and MOL); it began operation in March 2012 in the Asia – Europe and Mediterranean trade lanes. The cooperation expanded to the Asia – North America East Coast trade lane in May 2013. With the proposed expansion, the G6 Alliance will provide a network covering all three major East-West trade lanes, operating a total of 29 services.

The 12 planned services and their port rotations in the Asia - North America West Coast trade are: